{"id":1199,"date":"2019-08-21T12:39:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T12:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2019-08-21T12:39:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T12:39:05","slug":"egyptian-mythology-heart-vs-maat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/egyptian-mythology-heart-vs-maat\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian Mythology: Heart vs Ma&#8217;at"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Atum created the world, the chaos and disorder of Nun was pushed out beyond the borders of the Universe. In it&#8217;s place was left a wonderful sense of balance, justice and cosmic harmony known as Ma&#8217;at. This principle of Egyptian life, informing their morality, their laws and politics. The personification of Ma&#8217;at was a young goddess, often she was seen wearing feather.<\/p>\n<p>Egyptians thought the soul resides in the heart. When an Egyptian died, Anubis ( God of death) would take their heart and set it on a scales, weighting it against Ma&#8217;ta feather. The outcome would determine how closely people lived there life according to Ma&#8217;ta principles. Hearts that did not not make the grade suffered a second death and were consumed by the goddess Ammit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Atum created the world, the chaos and disorder of Nun was pushed out beyond the borders of the Universe. In it&#8217;s place was left a wonderful sense of balance, justice and cosmic harmony known as Ma&#8217;at. This principle of Egyptian life, informing their morality, their laws and politics. The personification of Ma&#8217;at was a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":1200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mythical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}